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Article: The Waldheim years
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 25, 1987
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Based on the United Nations' secret war crimes archives, a massive
dossier in Yugoslavia and sources in American intelligence, the
following chronology of events in Kurt Waldheim's life can be
confirmed:
December 21, 1918: Kurt Waldheim born in Austria.
April, 1938: Waldheim joins the Nazi Student Association.
August, 1938: Waldheim joins the German army and is assigned to the
45th Infantry Division.
May, 1941: Waldheim reassigned to the Russian-Polish border and is
wounded in the leg.
March, 1942: Waldheim recovers and joins army group E in Yugoslavia
in a unit headed by Nazi war criminal Gen. Loehr, who was tried and
convicted of crimes against humanity and executed after World ...